Seeing the new dual screen laptop at http://www.gscreencorp.com/ reminded me of a concept for a dual screen that I had some years ago. After giving presentations to clients all huddled around my laptop (when the screens were only visible sitting directly in front) I thought it would be ideal to have a laptop with opposing screens so I could be on one side and the client could view from the opposite side.
Although not ideal with the screen positioned at a 90 degree angle, it still would be useful for anyone giving presentations to small groups, real estate agents, finance brokers, sales reps etc.
The Gscreen prompted a modification to the concept by having a hinged based system for the screens so that they could be adjusted to varying angles and have the possibility of 2 screens facing the user. Here are a couple of pictures to look at.
There are some obvious flaws with the concept, some being:
- The weight of the screens would probably be too heavy for the laptop to hold up using monitors the size of the ones in the example picture. With monitor weight decreasing and utilising widescreen monitors it possibly could work.
- When folded the outside screen would have no protective cover. Maybe a clip on cover would be needed?
- Battery life, weight, cost etc as with the Gscreen, but it’s for a niche market, not everyone needs two screens but once you have it’s hard to go back.
- The screen when folded down to face the opposite way would be upside down. This can be inverted with the graphics card display settings but a more convenient method would need to be implemented.
- The hinges would be under considerable pressure from the weight of two monitors.
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May 9th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
@susan, Thanks Susan. I need to spend more time with it though.
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I think that people like side by side dual screen – even though I like how your design hinges operates and looks – I would also prefer a side by side solution. Nice though.
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Totally agree Greta. I really had more intention of this laptop being useful for giving small presentations, proposals etc to clients rather than huddling around on one side of a laptop which isn’t good for communication purposes. The idea is really to have the 2 screens facing in different directions. The screens above each other probably wouldn’t work due to the weight overbalancing the laptop.
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